Concur, a leading integrated travel and expense provider, today
announced its new datacentre in Europe. As part of its continued
expansion and commitment to its customers in local markets, Concur has
worked with datacentre provider partners to build a co-located
datacentre with sites provisioned in France and the Netherlands.

Concur’s European datacentre represents a significant investment in
state-of-the-art infrastructure, with the development offering a
combination of public and private cloud hosting. The highly secure units
and fully virtualised facilities in both The Netherlands and France
allow Concur to better serve its growing client base within EMEA and
host data in the most environmentally friendly manner. This project
illustrates the company’s commitment to the needs of its customers based
throughout Europe, who will now have the option to host their data
locally.

The investment is an extension of Concur’s global cloud strategy, which
brings the travel ecosystem together, to form the T&E cloud that creates
a seamless, end-to-end experience for business travellers and companies.
Over 30 cloud vendors partner with Concur at a Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) level, to enrich the full
breadth of unique application services that Concur offers across the
travel and expense space, to its European customers. For example, Concur
leverages the Application Programming Interface (API) of a VAT services
provider to deliver subject matter expertise on compliance. By offering
the complete cloud stack – from software to platform and infrastructure
– Concur can work with its partners across the globe to build compelling
propositions that are tailored to regional market needs, for both the
private and public sector.

Concur’s investment in Research and Development and technical expertise
throughout Europe has provided the company with the talent, to build and
co-locate the datacentre in collaboration with its specialist partners.
A combined team of 55 people were involved in the project from across
the company, while 16 permanent team members will oversee data
management at the facilities on an on-going basis.

Isabel Montesdeoca, General Manager for Concur EMEA comments: “Concur
appreciates just how important it is for companies to ensure their data
is stored securely. We’ve invested significant resources into this new
datacentre, specifically to meet the needs of our European customers and
offer them peace-of-mind with regards to reliable, and local, data
storage and access”.

“As an enabler of SaaS solutions, we know how important it is to build
cloud infrastructure that is both globalised and localised,” said Steve
Caniano, VP Hosting, Managed Applications and Cloud Solutions, AT&T
Business Solutions. “We work closely with businesses such as Concur to
host their applications as close to their user-base as possible so that,
as they expand their global footprint, they are able to deliver the best
experience to their customers.”

Concur is a leading provider of integrated travel and expense management
solutions. Concur’s easy-to-use Web-based and mobile solutions help
companies and their employees control costs and save time. Concur
Connect is the platform that enables the entire travel and expense
ecosystem of customers, suppliers, and developers to access and extend
Concur’s T&E cloud. Concur’s systems adapt to individual employee
preferences and scale to meet the needs of companies from small to
large. Learn more at http://www.concur.com/en-uk
or the Concur
blog.

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